Family is one of the biggest Influences in a person's life. How they view you as a person and every word they say means something and usually has an extremely big impact on us. We always want our parents to see us as the perfect children and so we do things to please them. This is the influence of being a parent and seeing how much you matter to a child. Family, either immediate or nuclear, all have a big influence on how we live our lives and what decisions we choose to make. Even small decisions are effected by our families, whether they are right or wrong and how much they will impact us and others. To be honest, they may be the most influential thing in life we've got simply because they are the one's who have the biggest part in molding us into who we are everyday.
Friends always have a lot of Influence, regardless who we are. We have our friends, best friends, and even some classify friends as close friend. This bonding between us as people shows the amount of influence that we can have on one another as people, to that effect it can have a positive and negative effect (that will be discussed later). Friends are our way of releasing all our pent up feelings when we need someone we feel most comfortable with. Sometimes that's not our parents, just cause we feel that they wouldn't understand (whether this is right or wrong is up to one's own judgement) but in the grand spectrum, depending on how one views the world, friends can play just as big a role in influence as family. We all observe the world through different eyes.